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75b8dfc0 RE |
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2 | OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at | |
364836ca | 3 | ______________ $Date: 1999/08/14 20:49:37 $ |
75b8dfc0 RE |
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5 | DEVELOPMENT STATE | |
6 | ||
d91e201e RE |
7 | o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Under development... |
8 | o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999 | |
5132cadf RE |
9 | o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999 |
10 | o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999 | |
85b283ff | 11 | o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999 |
9cb0969f | 12 | o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998 |
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13 | |
14 | RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS | |
15 | ||
16 | AVAILABLE PATCHES | |
17 | ||
189b6a60 | 18 | o getenv in ca.c and x509_def.c (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) |
189b6a60 | 19 | |
75b8dfc0 RE |
20 | IN PROGRESS |
21 | ||
67d5ac03 | 22 | o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order): |
67d5ac03 | 23 | Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification. |
1d48dd00 | 24 | Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation. |
10243d97 | 25 | Checking and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code). |
87c49f62 | 26 | Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions. |
679ab7c3 | 27 | |
6ccec439 MC |
28 | o Mark is currently working on: |
29 | Folding in any changes that are in the C2Net code base that were | |
30 | not in the original SSLeay-0.9.1.b release. Plus other minor | |
31 | tidying. | |
32 | ||
d5083e01 RE |
33 | o Ralf is currently working on: |
34 | 1. Support for SSL_set_default_verify_paths(), | |
35 | SSL_load_verify_locations(), SSL_get_cert_store() and | |
36 | SSL_set_cert_store() functions which work like their existing | |
37 | SSL_CTX_xxx() variants but on a per connection basis. That's needed | |
38 | to let us provide full-featured per-URL client verification in | |
39 | mod_ssl or Apache-SSL. | |
a5e035b5 RE |
40 | => It still dumps core, so I suspend this and investigate |
41 | again for OpenSSL 0.9.3. | |
d5083e01 | 42 | 2. The perl/ stuff to make it really work the first time ;-) |
a5e035b5 | 43 | => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2 |
6b503540 | 44 | 3. The new documentation set in POD format under doc/ |
a5e035b5 | 45 | => I'll investigate a few more hours for OpenSSL 0.9.2 |
d5083e01 RE |
46 | 4. More cleanups to get rid of obsolete/old/ugly files in the |
47 | source tree which are not really needed. | |
a5e035b5 | 48 | => Done all which were possible with my personal knowledge |
d5083e01 | 49 | |
189b6a60 | 50 | o Ben is currently working on: |
726bae3f BL |
51 | 1. Function Prototype Thought Police issues. |
52 | 2. Integrated documentation. | |
53 | 3. New TLS Ciphersuites. | |
54 | 4. Anything else that takes his fancy. | |
189b6a60 | 55 | |
75b8dfc0 RE |
56 | NEEDS PATCH |
57 | ||
364836ca | 58 | o base64 decoding bug (Ivan Nejgebauer) |
acafc0b4 UM |
59 | o salzr@certco.com (Rich Salz): Bug in X509_name_print |
60 | <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2BA4@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com> | |
e6d0b6ec | 61 | o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl |
acafc0b4 | 62 | o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file |
acafc0b4 | 63 | |
75b8dfc0 RE |
64 | OPEN ISSUES |
65 | ||
ab3f0c66 RE |
66 | o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints |
67 | CA flag ...) | |
68 | ||
2ec077d8 RE |
69 | o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: |
70 | ||
71 | 1. The config vs. Configure scripts | |
72 | It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs. | |
73 | src/Configure. It confuses. | |
74 | Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure | |
75 | script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove | |
76 | Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf | |
77 | itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks | |
78 | which are currently in Configure. | |
79 | ||
a6f20a1e RE |
80 | o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least |
81 | for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff | |
82 | Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the | |
83 | solution to be really simple. | |
84 | ||
85 | Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the | |
86 | compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache | |
87 | into the OpenSSL Configure script. | |
88 | ||
89 | o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's | |
90 | totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date | |
91 | with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice | |
92 | Net::SSLeay package we can find under | |
93 | http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a | |
94 | longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be | |
95 | to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a | |
96 | Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for | |
97 | us. | |
98 | ||
99 | Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay | |
100 | and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up | |
101 | to date. | |
68a8a41b | 102 | Paul +1 |
a6f20a1e | 103 | |
679ab7c3 DSH |
104 | o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER |
105 | structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but | |
106 | for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to | |
107 | use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff | |
108 | is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just | |
109 | an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open | |
110 | don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors | |
111 | use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect | |
112 | RC2 to adapt). | |
69d1dfba | 113 | |
189b6a60 RE |
114 | o Properly initialize the PRNG in the absence of /dev/random. |
115 | ||
3f90e679 BM |
116 | o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is, |
117 | there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize) | |
118 | or similar. | |
119 | ||
69d1dfba RE |
120 | WISHES |
121 | ||
48c843c3 | 122 | o |